Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.

The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

There is a perfect someone, even if the road to that someone isn’t all that perfect.

The first book we fall in love with shapes us every bit as much as the first person we fall in love with.